Thank you so much for the game and for all your amazing content, Danya! I have watched all of your speed run videos, some more than once. Having the opportunity to play a game with you was a great honor and a lot of fun (also a lot of stress to be honest). The blunder at the end was sad, but the complications of that final position were overwhelming for me. Qa4 was not on my radar as an option, and everything else was simply losing. After more than a minute of thinking, I felt the pressure to make a move - and obviously chose a bad one. 😅 Anyway, I am so glad I have this video now and the memory of a very special moment in my personal chess history. Thank you so much again, Danya! And thanks everyone for the nice comments here. I love the positivity of Danya’s community.
Kudos to your play, you made Danya think he reached an objectively losing position during the game, that is no mean feat! Thanks for giving us such an impressive game to learn from. I think I'll be able to learn a lot from this, since I play the Alapin with both sides.
Great game, man! Would you be willing to share the move at which your opening prep ran out? I found myself really wondering that that while watching. Danya kind of said when he wasn't sure of the next move and I'm sure I'm not alone in wondering where that was for you. Again, great game!
@@Blitnock If i had to guess it would probably be around white’s a4 move or a few moves later. Because Be6 prior is not a move a human would make without a guarantee that any immediate tactical possibilities work out in his favour.
@@Blitnock Thank you! I have the Chessable Course Fight Like Magnus: The Sicilian. I haven’t quite finished studying the course, not even halfway through. But I looked through the Alapin chapter. 11. a5 Nd5 are the last moves in the course. I’ve never seen 12. a6 before. But already 10. a4 was new for me and I felt out of theory. For people at my level it’s very unusual to delay e4 for so long.
most of it is actually opening theory. at 2000 people generally know a couple openings really well (not all, of course). very likely daniel just ran into an alapin specialist
24:18 "You're transferring the character of the advantage" 😅 Sweet chess poetry, and awesome game! The educational quality of these games and your analysis (both during and after the game) is outstanding.
Oh man, was Danya on fire in this game! Amazing content as usual. Also funny: Move 28: danya blunders his queen!!! Move 31: black resigns. Keep it up and greetings from another daniel from germany! :)
@@ponzi_0 "Sexy move" and "Not every piece has to distribute the covid vaccine" come to mind immediately. I'm sure there are some other ones people can point out.
I also loved Danya explaining converting the advantage with exf. Its interesting how he can talk so clearly and play top chess at the same time. Hats down Daniel, youre great
Danya says he got lucky, and it's humble of him to say so, but I'm certain there's more to it than luck. He clearly said his instinct screamed c4 was the correct move even if he made a mistake in concrete calculation. His position was also already clearly better as a result of very precise play. So luck may have played a role, but it certainly wasn't decisive in this case.
@@nimatedAdventures luck is absolutely a thing. you're playing a game where the human brain is literally incapable of concretely calculating the full decision tree. at some point even the best GMs are relying on a combination of concrete tactics, positional understanding, and sheer intuition. when your intuition happens to align with the concrete considerations of the tactics on the board (with best play from both sides, all roads lead to rome & you win), that is skill AND luck.
or like when you lead your opponent down a combination they didn't see, which looks winning for you, but at the end it just so happens they have a tactical resource neither of you saw. that's bad luck for you and good luck for them. sure, it's also bad skill from you. but it's not like luck isn't a thing in chess :)
Hey Daniel, thank you for all the great instructive content! Lately I have been intrigued on trying to understand different top players styles. A video series idea I had would be something along the lines of taking some top players and showing analysis on some of their games with the intention of exemplifying the differences in playing styles. For instance, a series that explains Nepos style, a series that explains Dings style, etc... Just an idea! I'm not sure if others would even enjoy this but it seems very interesting to me! Haha Anyway, thanks again for all your hard work, you help my chess immensely. -Robert
Ben finegold has a series like this on his channel if you are interested. It's called something like great players of the past/present. It is a lot like what you describe
That advice of Kotov is awesome, i exhaust myself calculating lines on my opponents turns and really love the idea of general observation on my opponents turn and actual concrete variations on my opponent's
Stunning is right. There are some deep positional ideas in that variation. Way over my head in the sense that it would go horribly wrong if I tried to play that way right now, but really fascinating to hear Danya's explanations. It's incredible that his opponent kept up as well as he did.
Awesome teacher, he indeed makes the game appear quite straightforward. However, the vast ocean of knowledge underlying each move cannot be overstated. From the opening he usually knows each “principle idea” & where the game typically will be heading. Therefore, often , in these speedrun games he’s better right out of the opening. And when the principled moves don’t seem to work, he can always shift gear & go into hustle mode. So really it’s almost impossible for him to lose a game against a
"The stronger player is always lucky" seems to apply in this game. I was afraid for Danya at the critical point but the GM brought the game to its logical and brilliant conclusion by the deep Rd8-b8-b7 maneuver. I must say that the lines Danya discusses here (with a2-a4 often a key move) appear much more promising and aggressive than the somewhat passive and much less challenging approach used in ""Squeezing the Sicilian".
Even with a seeming blunder (which it turns out actually was not), how amazing was it that early in the game he said the pawn on a6 could win the game (which it would have if the opponent didn't blunder the bishop). Such good content Danya!
great stuff. interesting line in the alapin, looks much more fun. and now i feel less guilty when winning despite missing something and still having a win by luck.
16:49 That pawn never had a defender. Also, a better way to look at the situation is that it also has no attackers currently nor is it easy to attack in this position. Candidate attackers are the queen and the f pawn. But as will all "undefended" pieces, what is also important is that if not attacked, and as in this position, it takes a move to make an attack, the same move which is basically giving you a move to defend. If you let the opponent simply attack YOU, you can use that time to move your pieces, only when they have a devastating attack which forks your pieces does it matter to take precaution, or when you have no better moves, so you make a down the line useful move.
You especially don't need to keep an eye on it, but make sure you react to threats, surely, cause you may be expecting to trade it for the f pawn, so dead things need no love. They did they murda.
You can look at this game as two people spending their turns. It's only what you can accomplish in a position that is the question. If you are not fishing for errors while playing "solid", you are not trying to win a relatively equal game. The way I learned to win is to make people think that going down the wrong line is good for them. So actually finding positions they are likely to make a mistake in weeds out the noobs from the seen it befores.
It's games like this that motivate me to be a better chess player. A masterclass in tempo vs. tactical advantage. I wish it hadn't ended in a blunder, but black played an amazing game. GGs Danya!!
Hi Danya,. genuinely curious about this one: you played three consecutive pawn moves on the queenside before developing any pieces on that side of the board. I listened to your positional explanation of why it made sense, but isn't it still breaking the opening ideas of bringing out all of your pieces and not making unnecessary pawn moves? Thanks
Concrete ideas (in this case, tactics from opening theory) trump abstract principles. But only, of course, if the concrete idea is well-calculated, which is the difference between those three pawn moves and a 500-elo player's favorite opening trap gimmick.
As danya stated in the video, the point of rushing the pawn to a6 was not immediately obvious but as we saw in one possibility, the pawn gave him a winning position. Also investing 3 moves where black had to respond back with 2 tempi is not a bad investment. Black couldn’t develop his bishop without repercussions (Qg4 and Bh6 winning the exchange) and the knights were kicked around on less desirable squares. It’s also important to note that previously, trades for reaching an endgame favored black however with the inclusion of this pawn, this suddenly changes to favoring white. In the meantime, black struggles to develop and coordinate his pieces and has to come to terms with the fact that unfavorable trades will be losing for him and getting the trades that he wants will become a much more difficult possibility. By the way, this concept is very abstract and theoretical where it’s difficult even for master level players to grasp.
I would love to see more in depth video when you discuss alapin/sicilian from white and black perspective. I found out that many of comments across the video are lack of power after 3ish move 😅 I would be happy to see if possible that kind of analysis from you 😊
We can see how hard is to think like a GM...we need a lot of study and memorization of many positions to read a position like you. Im curious about how you memorized this theory that far.
A similar thing happen to me today, my opponent was doing such bad moves but I screwed up the theory, and lost a rook, and I got tilted so I just rage quit but it turned out I shouldnt have since I apparently had a +1 advantage 😔
That is an absolutely fascinating game especially after rook g8. It's unfortunate that black resign after they blunder the bishop, I want to see how the opponent would survive in that seemingly winning position.
@@witcher-86 No I'm not kidding. Maybe you should look at the game again. You said black should play A6 after white plays A5. Now you're saying after A4. Which one is it? If you play A6 after white plays A5, axb6 and there goes your knight. The queen has nothing to do with it.
After a4 a6 and if a5 Nd5 that's my point, cause if you allow white to push a6 like in the game black is worse, i learned this the hard way in otb classical
@@witcher-86 if you back up a little bit farther in the video, before he even plays a4, he explains the downside of protecting the b5 Square. If you do that he's going to put a white knight on there and you won't be able to remove it. Don't forget also that black is a minimum of three moves before they can get the Bishop out and four before they can Castle. Playing a5 or a6 delays that even more. I think if you want to prevent all this it has to start earlier. Once the knight is on b6 it's sort of invites this. Because once you move the a pawn, the N is undefended, that invite tactics. You've wasted more precious time that you need to get your king out of the center. And you've given white a dangerous Square to put a knight on. I understand that you don't like that pawn push, but I just pulled it up with the engine and it said black is .38 worse after moving the a pawn. So the engine does consider it an inaccuracy. It actually wants Rd8.
It was a bit heartbreaking to see the line I play personally get torn apart like this. BUT! It means I learned a lot about defending this line and inspired a chess study session 😊
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Thank you so much for the game and for all your amazing content, Danya! I have watched all of your speed run videos, some more than once. Having the opportunity to play a game with you was a great honor and a lot of fun (also a lot of stress to be honest).
The blunder at the end was sad, but the complications of that final position were overwhelming for me. Qa4 was not on my radar as an option, and everything else was simply losing. After more than a minute of thinking, I felt the pressure to make a move - and obviously chose a bad one. 😅
Anyway, I am so glad I have this video now and the memory of a very special moment in my personal chess history. Thank you so much again, Danya! And thanks everyone for the nice comments here. I love the positivity of Danya’s community.
Kudos to your play, you made Danya think he reached an objectively losing position during the game, that is no mean feat! Thanks for giving us such an impressive game to learn from. I think I'll be able to learn a lot from this, since I play the Alapin with both sides.
Great game, man! Would you be willing to share the move at which your opening prep ran out? I found myself really wondering that that while watching. Danya kind of said when he wasn't sure of the next move and I'm sure I'm not alone in wondering where that was for you. Again, great game!
@@Blitnock If i had to guess it would probably be around white’s a4 move or a few moves later. Because Be6 prior is not a move a human would make without a guarantee that any immediate tactical possibilities work out in his favour.
You put up a stubborn defence against a top GM with the Black pieces. You should be extremely proud!
@@Blitnock Thank you! I have the Chessable Course Fight Like Magnus: The Sicilian. I haven’t quite finished studying the course, not even halfway through. But I looked through the Alapin chapter. 11. a5 Nd5 are the last moves in the course. I’ve never seen 12. a6 before. But already 10. a4 was new for me and I felt out of theory. For people at my level it’s very unusual to delay e4 for so long.
“This may be the closest I’ve come to losing a speed run game.” Stockfish says it’s +5.
Even when Naroditsky blunders the blunder is the only winning move.
pretty impressive for the opponent to do so well against a strong GM. They can be very proud
most of it is actually opening theory. at 2000 people generally know a couple openings really well (not all, of course). very likely daniel just ran into an alapin specialist
Did you watch the end? Lol. Nothing to be proud of that’s embarrassing
@@SIIGG ok sorry mister 1450
@@juliusgreen9179 more like mr 200 lol
@@SIIGG You’re actually right. These guys talking trash are D riders and prob rated 1000. I totally agree with you
24:18 "You're transferring the character of the advantage" 😅 Sweet chess poetry, and awesome game! The educational quality of these games and your analysis (both during and after the game) is outstanding.
When Danya blunders his Queen, its a winning Queen sac
Thanks!
99.99
C4 being the top move is the content I live for. This game is simply amazing
Very fun game! Love 8:35, "There is a piece called a queen, and queens also move diagonally"-- I learn something new every video 😛
Oh man, was Danya on fire in this game! Amazing content as usual. Also funny:
Move 28: danya blunders his queen!!!
Move 31: black resigns.
Keep it up and greetings from another daniel from germany! :)
"Up in Black's grill" is one of my favorite Naroditskyisms. But it really defined the whole game!
What are all the other Naroditskyisms I must know
@@ponzi_0 Bishops biting in granite
Pouring in tobasco sauce
Not taking the foot of the gas pedal
Frankfut airport
Covid vaccine
And many others
@@ponzi_0 "Sexy move" and "Not every piece has to distribute the covid vaccine" come to mind immediately. I'm sure there are some other ones people can point out.
"and if our opponent finds it, we'll just have to tip our hat"
"Let's not rest on our laurels"
It's 2 a.m. here but Stunning Sicilian Showdown!
Bro, we know - it's in the title.
4 a.m. here >_
@@sarcastaball Bro, - we know it's in the title, the title is in the title
@@sarcastaball we know Bro, we know.
"C4 would be very explosive", I love the unintentional pun.
It's not unintentional
It's a very common joke, and made intentionally.
Shoutout Ben Finegold
21:37 bookmark clip “danya realises the power of C4”
I also loved Danya explaining converting the advantage with exf. Its interesting how he can talk so clearly and play top chess at the same time. Hats down Daniel, youre great
Danya says he got lucky, and it's humble of him to say so, but I'm certain there's more to it than luck. He clearly said his instinct screamed c4 was the correct move even if he made a mistake in concrete calculation. His position was also already clearly better as a result of very precise play. So luck may have played a role, but it certainly wasn't decisive in this case.
luck is not a thing. it's the skill
@@nimatedAdventures luck is absolutely a thing. you're playing a game where the human brain is literally incapable of concretely calculating the full decision tree. at some point even the best GMs are relying on a combination of concrete tactics, positional understanding, and sheer intuition.
when your intuition happens to align with the concrete considerations of the tactics on the board (with best play from both sides, all roads lead to rome & you win), that is skill AND luck.
or like when you lead your opponent down a combination they didn't see, which looks winning for you, but at the end it just so happens they have a tactical resource neither of you saw. that's bad luck for you and good luck for them. sure, it's also bad skill from you. but it's not like luck isn't a thing in chess :)
Hey Daniel, thank you for all the great instructive content!
Lately I have been intrigued on trying to understand different top players styles. A video series idea I had would be something along the lines of taking some top players and showing analysis on some of their games with the intention of exemplifying the differences in playing styles. For instance, a series that explains Nepos style, a series that explains Dings style, etc... Just an idea! I'm not sure if others would even enjoy this but it seems very interesting to me! Haha
Anyway, thanks again for all your hard work, you help my chess immensely.
-Robert
I would love this. but no boring accuracybots please ;)
Ben finegold has a series like this on his channel if you are interested. It's called something like great players of the past/present. It is a lot like what you describe
This was insane. Teach me your ways
That advice of Kotov is awesome, i exhaust myself calculating lines on my opponents turns and really love the idea of general observation on my opponents turn and actual concrete variations on my opponent's
Nf6 and Rg8 was crazy, but Rb8 at the end was something else
Stunning is right. There are some deep positional ideas in that variation. Way over my head in the sense that it would go horribly wrong if I tried to play that way right now, but really fascinating to hear Danya's explanations. It's incredible that his opponent kept up as well as he did.
Awesome teacher, he indeed makes the game appear quite straightforward.
However, the vast ocean of knowledge underlying each move cannot be overstated. From the opening he usually knows each “principle idea” & where the game typically will be heading. Therefore, often , in these speedrun games he’s better right out of the opening.
And when the principled moves don’t seem to work, he can always shift gear & go into hustle mode.
So really it’s almost impossible for him to lose a game against a
This series is getting to be the best chess content around! Kudos to Daniel!
Such terrific content. Thank you!
Thanks for the awesome content, as always
Danny these videos are a real treat
"The stronger player is always lucky" seems to apply in this game. I was afraid for Danya at the critical point but the GM brought the game to its logical and brilliant conclusion by the deep Rd8-b8-b7 maneuver. I must say that the lines Danya discusses here (with a2-a4 often a key move) appear much more promising and aggressive than the somewhat passive and much less challenging approach used in ""Squeezing the Sicilian".
22:06 - 22:52 Best part
nice video. quality of explanations improving past months. thank you.
Very insightful game. Thank you, Danya. Damn good stuff.
i love your content so much ... its like having a personal coach without paying him... u r the bestt
Even with a seeming blunder (which it turns out actually was not), how amazing was it that early in the game he said the pawn on a6 could win the game (which it would have if the opponent didn't blunder the bishop). Such good content Danya!
Amazing game! Thank you for sharing :)
Sometimes life is cruel. Like when there's no one around to hear unrated you yelling C4! C4!
A truly explosive move
Nothing compares in chess to Danya's way of teaching. Thank you for these wonderful videos!
This game was very exciting! Great tactics being displayed and always learning.
22:38 yes, C4 is indeed very explosive!
great stuff. interesting line in the alapin, looks much more fun. and now i feel less guilty when winning despite missing something and still having a win by luck.
16:49 That pawn never had a defender. Also, a better way to look at the situation is that it also has no attackers currently nor is it easy to attack in this position. Candidate attackers are the queen and the f pawn. But as will all "undefended" pieces, what is also important is that if not attacked, and as in this position, it takes a move to make an attack, the same move which is basically giving you a move to defend. If you let the opponent simply attack YOU, you can use that time to move your pieces, only when they have a devastating attack which forks your pieces does it matter to take precaution, or when you have no better moves, so you make a down the line useful move.
You especially don't need to keep an eye on it, but make sure you react to threats, surely, cause you may be expecting to trade it for the f pawn, so dead things need no love. They did they murda.
You can look at this game as two people spending their turns. It's only what you can accomplish in a position that is the question. If you are not fishing for errors while playing "solid", you are not trying to win a relatively equal game. The way I learned to win is to make people think that going down the wrong line is good for them. So actually finding positions they are likely to make a mistake in weeds out the noobs from the seen it befores.
32:29 I used to call these fun games. Luck, is your brain working, apparently. As so wanted, innit?
Amazing video! 😄
I kind of laughed when he said we are praying at this point lol 😂
Amazing game! I was stunned by the richness and depth of tactical ideas
What a triumph of opening strategy! Fun game and incredibly instructive.
It's games like this that motivate me to be a better chess player. A masterclass in tempo vs. tactical advantage. I wish it hadn't ended in a blunder, but black played an amazing game. GGs Danya!!
Great stuff
Hi Danya,. genuinely curious about this one: you played three consecutive pawn moves on the queenside before developing any pieces on that side of the board. I listened to your positional explanation of why it made sense, but isn't it still breaking the opening ideas of bringing out all of your pieces and not making unnecessary pawn moves? Thanks
Concrete ideas (in this case, tactics from opening theory) trump abstract principles. But only, of course, if the concrete idea is well-calculated, which is the difference between those three pawn moves and a 500-elo player's favorite opening trap gimmick.
As danya stated in the video, the point of rushing the pawn to a6 was not immediately obvious but as we saw in one possibility, the pawn gave him a winning position. Also investing 3 moves where black had to respond back with 2 tempi is not a bad investment. Black couldn’t develop his bishop without repercussions (Qg4 and Bh6 winning the exchange) and the knights were kicked around on less desirable squares. It’s also important to note that previously, trades for reaching an endgame favored black however with the inclusion of this pawn, this suddenly changes to favoring white. In the meantime, black struggles to develop and coordinate his pieces and has to come to terms with the fact that unfavorable trades will be losing for him and getting the trades that he wants will become a much more difficult possibility. By the way, this concept is very abstract and theoretical where it’s difficult even for master level players to grasp.
Very nice!!
This was a beautiful game
I would love to see more in depth video when you discuss alapin/sicilian from white and black perspective. I found out that many of comments across the video are lack of power after 3ish move 😅 I would be happy to see if possible that kind of analysis from you 😊
Every opponents seem to totally collapse eventually but this is one held on a little more than the others.
GM’s are out of my world. Rb8 with the threat of promoting the a6 pawn is a +5 position is completely out of my limits.
Awesome game! When in doubt, trust the GM brain haha fantastic! Well played by both sides.
hats off to your opponent for a great game
Best Chess Teacher on the Web. Better than Hikaru or anyone else! That's what i call an analytic mind!
Kick-ass evaluation, I would have never thought I was winning even if I won.
One of my favourite players and commentators.
danya blunders: +5
me blunder: lose sanity
Thank you
As mr james canty says,c3 sil for the kill....Another fantastic chess lesson from danny.
Very entertaining game 🤝
🤯 wwwwwhat a game holy guacamole
22:38 thanks to the chat for the Finegold-ism!
You underated I just remembered you had a ytc also I'm you new subscriber
sick game
Awesome match
Wow! Just wow!
C4 - explosive move... I just got the joke :D
That was very beautiful
Amazing game!
Great game by the opponent until the end.
Unbelievable game. That A file pawn push was from alpha zero land.
The game was so good, but then the ending happened. Great video anyways!
42:01
Bruh this is an incredible game
Classic Danya ‘Oops I blundered’ turns out as the top computer move…
Man, stockfish 15 is nasty
Danya > All other chess youtubers
Very interesting game with queensack and all
I really hope i get to play a game against you one day Danya, if it happens it will be a great learning experience
I feel bad for the opponent. The nerves can get you in those moments.
here we go again my idol.
Danya please, let me work as you thumbnail/graphic design guy; You have helped my chess so much that I don´t mind on doing it free.
Crazy! 😂
"Probably going to win the game unless you do something really dumb"
me: *does something really dumb*
32:40
We can see how hard is to think like a GM...we need a lot of study and memorization of many positions to read a position like you. Im curious about how you memorized this theory that far.
he's played a lot of chess frequently since a young age. Human minds can absorb a lot when given the opportunity
Danya is ze best!
This reminds me of my blitz game, when I blundered my rook by a knight fork. I rage quit and saw my evaluation bar saying I was winning by 4 pawns.
A similar thing happen to me today, my opponent was doing such bad moves but I screwed up the theory, and lost a rook, and I got tilted so I just rage quit but it turned out I shouldnt have since I apparently had a +1 advantage 😔
brilliant Queen blunder
This was horrifying to imagine playing as black! I would immediately drop this opening haha
Danya used his commentator's curse by hyping up his opponent, and then his opponent immediately blundered.
This has more views than the latest world championship game
cool game
"There is a piece called a queen"
GM Daniel Naroditsky, 2023
That is an absolutely fascinating game especially after rook g8. It's unfortunate that black resign after they blunder the bishop, I want to see how the opponent would survive in that seemingly winning position.
all good and great, but imo black shouldn't allow a6 by playing a6 themselves after a5 when Q was still on e6
a6 blunders the N on b6
@@bughunter1766 are you kiddin Q is still on d1, a6 just after a4 not to allow that a6 bs
@@witcher-86 No I'm not kidding. Maybe you should look at the game again. You said black should play A6 after white plays A5. Now you're saying after A4. Which one is it? If you play A6 after white plays A5, axb6 and there goes your knight. The queen has nothing to do with it.
After a4 a6 and if a5 Nd5 that's my point, cause if you allow white to push a6 like in the game black is worse, i learned this the hard way in otb classical
@@witcher-86 if you back up a little bit farther in the video, before he even plays a4, he explains the downside of protecting the b5 Square. If you do that he's going to put a white knight on there and you won't be able to remove it.
Don't forget also that black is a minimum of three moves before they can get the Bishop out and four before they can Castle. Playing a5 or a6 delays that even more.
I think if you want to prevent all this it has to start earlier. Once the knight is on b6 it's sort of invites this. Because once you move the a pawn, the N is undefended, that invite tactics. You've wasted more precious time that you need to get your king out of the center. And you've given white a dangerous Square to put a knight on.
I understand that you don't like that pawn push, but I just pulled it up with the engine and it said black is .38 worse after moving the a pawn. So the engine does consider it an inaccuracy. It actually wants Rd8.
WOOOWWW!!!
Such a good position you can blunder your queen and still be better.
Daniel use curl cream help with that frizz
great game, surely ends sicilian
It was a bit heartbreaking to see the line I play personally get torn apart like this. BUT! It means I learned a lot about defending this line and inspired a chess study session 😊